Timothy Wylie Staggs is pictured during his first appearance before a Lauderdale County judge. (WAFF 48)

A jail recording of a human trafficking suspect talking about fleeing the country has prompted Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to request that the man's passport be confiscated, along with other special bond conditions.

Timothy Wylie Staggs, 83, of Florence is charged with five counts of human trafficking and four counts of conspiracy to commit human trafficking. Staggs and Florence lawyer Edward Ray "Chip" Dillard, 51, were named in a 24-count indictment last week.

A motion filed Wednesday asking a judge to tack additional conditions onto Staggs' bond states that Staggs was recorded Saturday, while on a phone call from the Lauderdale County Jail, talking about selling all of his property and fleeing to the Philippines. Staggs' wife is reportedly a native of the Philippines.

Strange's office is asking that Staggs be ordered to turn over his passport and all other travel documentation and that if granted bond, he not be allowed to travel outside of Alabama without prior authorization.

The motion also asks that Staggs be ordered not to have any contact, "directly or indirectly through another person, including telephone or electronic communication, with any person who is a victim, witness or a family member of a victim or witness."

He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $300,000 cash bond.

Dillard, who is charged with seven counts of second-degree human trafficking, four counts of second-degree conspiracy to commit human trafficking, one count of sex abuse, two counts of making terroristic threats and one count of intimidating a witness, is being held in lieu of $500,000 cash bond.

Last week's indictment alleges that Dillard threatened to harm one of the alleged victims for providing investigators with information on the case. He is also accused of threatening another witness to influence his testimony with the grand jury.